Pretend you're sitting in a cafe and overhear a conversation next to you, between two tech recruiters. If you're not already ingrained in the tech industry, what you hear might sound like it's coming from a different planet. There are more Web develo...

Codecademy is expanding its catalogue of free, interactive programming tutorials with the launch of five Ruby courses. The New York-based startup has also brought its Python track out of beta and added two new courses on top of the original six it re...

In the Day in the Life Series, Mashable hand-picked seven successful tech entrepreneurs to follow for a day. We wanted to know what their routine is like, what they eat for lunch, how much time they spend in meetings, who they seek out for advice and...

Codecademy, a website that teaches users how to code through free, interactive tutorials, is launching its first Python courses Monday. Codecademy's website already offers a few hundred exercises in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, Zach Sims, Codeca...

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Despite its promise to turn anyone into a computer programmer through interactive online tutorials -- and its more than 1 million registered users, including New York City Mayor Bloomberg -- Codecademy hasn't been equipped to teach the most basic lan...

Codecademy hasn't had much trouble attracting people who want to learn how to code -- it has been used by more than 1 million people and signed up more than 100,000 people for its New Years resolution class alone, including the New York City mayor. N...

Missed out on that New Year's resolution to learn a programming language -- the goal that 300,000 people signed up for, including New York Mayor Bloomberg? Too busy with school to make it happen? You'll get another, even easier shot at that goal this...

An Olympic games, a U.S. presidential election and the end of the world are already planned for 2012, but we're more excited about the startups. Here are six of them (in no particular order) that we expect to help define the coming year. We chose com...

More than 170,000 people have signed up for Codecademy's challenge to learn how to code in 2012, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is one of them. The challenge, Code Year, was launched by New York-based startup Codecademy on Sunday and quickly to...

Codecademy, a startup that uses interactive online lessons to turn anyone into a computer programmer, has signed up 97,000 students in less than 48 hours for its New Year's resolution class Code Year. That's more than twice as many students as were e...

Since Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinsky left Columbia University to join Y Combinator, their startup, Codecademy, has attracted close to 1 million users and $2.5 million in funding from elite tech investors like Fred Wilson’s Union Square Ventures, Ron Con...

Sixty-three fledgling startups demoed their big ideas in front of investors and members of the press at Y Combinator's Demo Day on Tuesday. Of the massive batch -- Y Combinator's largest to date -- 32 companies now have products in the wild. With so ...

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